Understanding how to set up a proxy server is important if you ever want to become a power user. In simple terms, proxy usually means acting as a substitute or an agent. Online a proxy is usually a computer that acts as a substitute server. In computer networks, a proxy server is a server,which acts as a mediator for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. Anything and everything needed has to go through the proxy; no exceptions. The proxy server analyzes the request according to its filtering rules. Perhaps the most common such rule is banning access by clients on certain IP addresses.
When you want to set up a proxy server, a wide variety of choices exist out there. One of the most popular proxy servers for Windows-based systems is WinProxy. People really like it because everything’s absolutely invisible to the requester, with nothing to install on the client computer. NAT is available since WinProxy is a transparent proxy. That means that the client side doesn’t even know it’s dealing with a proxy server in the first place. WinProxy acts just like any other server, dealing with security issues and all the various protocols online – except when it needs to serve as a substitute, a proxy.
Configuration is not hard at all with WinProxy. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better alternative to set up a proxy server. Just make sure to take common initial steps such as installing TCP/IP on your network. Then, install WinProxy on the system, which you want to act as the proxy server. You can purchase this the traditional way in a store or through a simple download. Newbies should use the handy installation wizard for automatic installation. The first screen that appears is the product registration screen,which requires the user to enter the product key. From there the programs automated setup routine will determine your internet connection type for you. Under certain rare circumstances you may have to denote such information yourself. Next,it will ask to enter the username and password of the Internet connection. Most other things, you can let WinPoxy deal with. It assigns a unique address automatically,to each device on the LAN as internal addresses. It uses what your ISP gave you and turns that into an external address. It is this external address that will be shown to those outside your network, providing the anonymity you need. By now you would be practically at the end of setup, ready to take on the worldwide web anonymously through your proxy server, courtesy WinProxy.